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01 · Designing Systems

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

Katalyx INTERPRETATIONFOUNDATIONAL

THE Katalyx PERSPECTIVE

Brand shifts attention from the launch to the afterlife. Strategy should be designed for learning, inexpensive modification and changing use.

If this author were designing a national economy instead, what would they do?

Katalyx APPLICATION

Separate fast-changing programs from slow-moving infrastructure and governance, then build explicit feedback and retrofit cycles.

Katalyx RATING

Strategic Thinking
Systems Thinking
Practical Application
Long-Term Relevance
Clarity

ONE PROVOCATIVE QUESTION

Are leaders building transformations to impress at opening—or to improve for decades?

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